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# 1  
Old 09-19-2012
Inserting header after every nth line
Hi Experts,

I have a file which contain hundreds of records/lines. I want to insert the below header in the file after every 60 lines.

#Header
Code:
FirstName              LastName                Address          
---------              ----------              ---------

Let say I saved the above strings into a file called "header.txt".

Is there a way to just cat/echo/paste it into the main file after every 60 lines?


Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 09-19-2012
try..

Code:
 
awk '{if(!NR%60){print "#Header">"filename"}{print $0>"filename"}}' originalfile

# 3  
Old 09-19-2012
Try something this..
Code:
var="FirstName              LastName                Address
---------              ----------              ---------"

awk -v VM="$var" '{a++;if(a%60){print } else{print ;print VM}}' file

Last edited by pamu; 09-19-2012 at 03:41 PM..
# 4  
Old 09-19-2012
Try this, too, with GNU sed. Beware, it looks to work, but I'm not 100% sure it isn't bugged somehow:

Code:
sed -n 'p;G;s/[^\n]//g;t barrier;:barrier;s/^\n\{60\}$//;t insfile;h;d;:insfile;x;r header.txt' <originalfile >newfile

--
Bye
# 5  
Old 09-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
NR is always the same.. so (!NR%60) doesn't work here...
Now, what does that mean (NR being always same)? That might not work only because ! has a higher precedence than %. So the expression !NR%60 is evaluated as follows:
1) Negate the value of NR. This will always will false (0).
2) Evaluate 0%60 which will always return a 0.
So, that expression will always be false. That does not mean NR is the same always. Right? Smilie
The correct conditional expression should be !(NR%60).
This User Gave Thanks to elixir_sinari For This Post:
pamu
# 6  
Old 09-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
NR is always the same..
It is not. It's a special variable which means 'number of lines read', it changes every time awk loops through a line.
# 7  
Old 09-19-2012
Thanks elixir_sinari and Corona688,

I was confused between NR and NF and no result from (!NR%60) adds to it..Smilie
Just assumed that nature of both the variables is the same..Smilie
As elixir_sinari explained got it clear..
I should have tried it once..Smilie

ThanksSmilie
Last edited by pamu; 09-20-2012 at 04:04 AM..
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